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From: "Cheryl" <>
Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] WELSH MOUNTAINS ???
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:03:53 -0600
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Just my two cents worth,
It has been proven that if your gr. grandparents had been with a slave for
instance then the off spring of that child could carry down the generations
into a gr. gr. grandchild. It has even happened to famous people and they
divorced before they did the research on their family line and found there
had been a chicken in the hen house so to speak, 2 or 3 generations before
them.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peggy K. Reeves" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] WELSH MOUNTAINS ???


> I don't know anything about the "Welsh Mountains", but I would question
the
> sources of this article allegedly written by a Mr. Ecenbarger.
> Light-skinned parents do not give birth to dark-skinned children. The
skin
> color of children will be a color somewhere in between the hues of the two
> parents. Therefore, if light-skinned parents allegedly had a dark-skinned
> baby (or vice-versa), someone better have a look at the milkman or the
> fellow next door!
>
> Generations that alternate in skin color between light and dark--that's a
> good one!
>
>
> Peggy Reeves
> Burtonsville, MD
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] WELSH MOUNTAINS ???
>
>
> > Hi Peg:
> >
> > The Welsh Mountains are famous locally as a place where those who didn't
> fit
> > well with "traditional" society found a safe haven. The mountains were
> > especially known until recent times as a community of interracial
> families.
> >
> > About 10 years ago William Ecenbarger wrote the following (I believe it
> was a
> > Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine article):
> >
> > "The mountains got their name in the 1700s when they were settled by
Welsh
> > immigrants...Next came black slaves who were freed by their Quaker
masters
> in
> > the surrounding valleys, and them a few decades later, came fugitive
> slaves who
> > rode the Underground Railroad from the South to freedom. There were few
> > places in America where the melting pot boiled more intensely than here,
> and the
> > result was a society of ragged, rugged individualists who lived in
> interracial
> > harmony while the more advanced societies below them drew color lines
and
> > lynched and looted and burned. The skin coloring of Welsh Mountain's
> interracial
> > families alternated between generations - light-skinned parents would
give
> > birth to dark-skinned children. Their unconventional lifestyles led to
a
> whole
> > body of legends and myths about Welsh Mountain..."
> >
> > I can send you the whole article if you'd like. My wife had family on
the
> > mountain and we're still researching them. As you can imagine, "rugged
> > individualists" don't leave much of a trail.
> >
> >
> > Fred Kelso
> >
> > ______________________________
>
>
>
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